Maurice Neville Hill FRS (29 May 1919 – 11 January 1966) was a British marine geophysicist.

Background

Hill was the son of Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife Margaret Hill, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

. His sister was Polly Hill and his brother the biophysicist David Keynes Hill. He was educated at Byron House,

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgat ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

, where he took his PhD and was a Fellow from 1949 and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences from 1961. In 1965 he became Reader in Marine Geophysics at the Department of

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and

Geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge beca ...

. In 1944 he married Philippa Pass, daughter of Douglas Pass, and they had two sons and three daughters, including

Julia Riley Julia M. Riley (née Hill) is a British astrophysicist who developed the Fanaroff–Riley classification. Personal and professional background She is the daughter of Philippa (born Pass) and British marine geophysicist Maurice Hill and gran ...

and Mark Hill.

Awards and honours

He was elected

FRAS FRAS may refer to: * Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, post-nominal letters * Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are individuals who have bee ...

in 1951 and FGS in 1953. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...

in 1962. He was awarded the Charles Chree Medal and Prize in 1963.

References

1919 births 1966 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Highgate School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Keynes family British geophysicists Place of birth missing Place of death missing People educated at Byron House School Marine geophysicists {{England-painter-stub